doQer was dreamt up to solve a problem: user manuals are a pain.

If you’re a company that makes widgets, the last thing you want to worry about is creating a user manual for them. You want to focus on making your widgets as good as possible.

But the people who are going to buy those widgets need to know how to use them. So you have to create instruction documentation, often in many different formats: a printed manual that you can ship with your product, a PDF file that your users can download, some online help files for your website, and so on.

It takes time to create and maintain all the different formats. In many companies, the formats are maintained separately, so whenever a change or correction is required it has to be made separately to the printed manual and the online version.

doQer aims to solve that problem. We’re creating a web application that will allow vendors to maintain just one user guide document, and will automatically create all the different formats of user information just from that one data source.

Simple, but (hopefully) very useful. We’d love to hear your feedback on features that we should be aiming for, and how we can develop the idea further.